"show some guts and go through that Strait."
Very cool. Seems like Fox & Friends stole my joke (?) from last night…
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"show some guts and go through that Strait."
Very cool. Seems like Fox & Friends stole my joke (?) from last night…
Are the payroll taxes you're referring to paid by employers, and thus not reflected in salaries?
If this chart is accurate, total income taxes paid by someone earning ~60k SEK/month, about US$6500/month, would be about 28% net.
For someone making 4× that, 47%.
Very true, but on the other hand if the US stopped allowing Canada to receive *refined* oil, Canada might withhold *crude* oil from the US.
Could get pretty messy pretty fast.
Hastily negotiating with foreign leaders who you've recently threatened or tariffed can get tense.
Fascinatingly, oil shipping companies—facing uncertain legal, financial, and maritime environments—may feel similarly.
A bit of humor can help break the ice.
Let's delve into a few approaches ✨. 1/?
2. Another move is what I like to call "joking/not-joking."
Say you're texting with a 🇧🇷 tanker captain who won't go near the Strait of Hormuz…
Try this! 🪄
"If u take the gig, Trump Gold Visa™ for ur fam. If not, straight to CECOT for ur niece in Ohio. Lol its a MENS prison lowkey kidding 🤣" (3/?)
someone at the pentagon frantically typing “Claude, open the strait of Hormuz for me, quickest possible strategy, make no mistakes.”
1. A little self-deprecation can put everyone at ease!
For example, if you are Pete Hegseth, try starting off your pitch with a slide that says:
"Men will literally bomb Iran with no plan before going to therapy
Is a thing my mother said
In a 2022 court deposition regarding my 3rd divorce" 😆 2/?
Hastily negotiating with foreign leaders who you've recently threatened or tariffed can get tense.
Fascinatingly, oil shipping companies—facing uncertain legal, financial, and maritime environments—may feel similarly.
A bit of humor can help break the ice.
Let's delve into a few approaches ✨. 1/?
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I would love to hear someone at OpenAI/Microsoft explain why "AI safety" doesn't allow their "AI assistants" to compose anti-AI rants.
You know, we could have done this with a carbon tax years ago and not killed anyone. Or, we could have left Biden’s subsidies for electric cars and clean energy alone, making fossil fuels prices less important — again, no one gets killed.
Instead, Trump’s War and higher prices for everything.
That would depend on the Trump administration implementing the oil export ban competently and non-corruptly, right?
As far as I know, US is still a net importer of crude oil.
Can you explain this in more detail?
What would be the step-by-step series of events that severely harm the economies of the rest of the not-militarily-involved world, but leave the US relatively unscathed?
Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised if Trump tries it… but would it ACTUALLY stabilize domestic prices?
US is a net importer of crude but exporter of refined oil.
Wouldn't US oil companies shut down some capacity if they couldn't sell it abroad, and thus had to sell it for less?
That seems to have been a pretty highly contested question at the time, and still is to some degree.
For what it's worth, *I* think Israel was clearly defending itself against imminent total destruction in 1973, and will have trouble making that same case today.
I just flew back from the Riyadh comedy festival, and boy are my arms still attached to my torso.
This × 100.
Trump ignores, threatens, and belittles decent democratic leaders who tell him the truth. Like Carney 🇨🇦 and Macron 🇫🇷.
He favors and assists right-wing authoritarians who flatter and manipulate him. Bukele 🇸🇻, Putin 🇷🇺, Orbán 🇭🇺, MbS 🇸🇦, etc. And yes indeed Netanyahu 🇮🇱 is among them.
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The 1973 oil crisis was also sparked by a war involving Israel and its neighbors, and didn't seem to hurt its perception in Americans' minds.
(To be clear, I think the authoritarian and militaristic alliance between Trump and Israel is very bad, but "oil prices" are the least of my worries.)
If demand for Canadian oil spikes, and we start building pipelines all over the place… what does it do to the Alberta separatists?
Next thing you're gonna tell me that you don't care for our ketchup flavoured potato chips either. 🧐
I think you're right.
I think Trump's goal, reminiscent of Putin's, is to convince a lot of his voters that they would somehow be LESS SAFE under his opponents.
(Woke mobs! Haitians eating pets! Somali sharia law scammers! Etc)
Very good question.
Perhaps they wanted a (tiny) list of remaining grants to point to which would continue to receive funding after the cuts?
DOGE didn't really care which ones… they just needed to be a few "non-DEI-y" ones.
Aspire to be a person about whom future archaeologists will say "is probably apocryphal".
How much do I wanna bet that David Ellison is gonna take it down?
I'm so glad we slammed the brakes on electrification right before this
Do you actually live here?
It’s Ukraine’s turn to ask if we even said “thank you”.
It would be insane, stupid, and destructive on every imaginable level, that's for sure.
"Okay but what if we just take a little bit of the tar sandy part?"
What are the chances that invading Alberta is one of the ideas now being "workshopped" by the Trump admin?
